Trifolium repens

White clover

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

White clover is a naturalized perennial herb found in California's Central Valley, Foothills, northern Great Basin in disturbed areas at elevations from sea level to 2,500 meters. Flowering from February to December, this plant produces white flowers in compact heads 1 to 2.5 centimeters wide. Growing as a creeping, turf-forming plant with stems that root along the ground, it spreads horizontally to form dense patches. Its leaves have three distinctive obovate leaflets about 0.5 to 2.5 centimeters long, with white-membranous stipules and long leaf stalks. The flower corolla measures 7 to 11 millimeters long, with flowers that gradually bend downward as they mature.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Feb-Dec

Elevation: 0-2500 m

Bioregions: CA-FP, n GB

California counties: Alpine, Kern, Sonoma, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Marin, Plumas, Siskiyou, Inyo, Santa Cruz, Butte, Mendocino, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco, Humboldt, Trinity, Tulare, Santa Clara, Sacramento, Stanislaus, El Dorado, Amador, Yuba, Calaveras, Nevada, Modoc, Contra Costa, Lassen, Alameda, Tehama, Shasta, Placer, Mono, Tuolumne, Del Norte, Orange, Mariposa, Sierra, Colusa, Napa, San Mateo, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Madera, Ventura, Monterey, Yolo, Imperial, San Joaquin, San Benito

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.